a short (15~20 min) and free, satanic animal crossing out-of-bounds experience

definitely worth checking out!

As this was such an awaited new game in the Resident Evil series I can proudly say that the Animals crossing are not to be messed with and that- What? What do you mean this isn't Resident Evil? Isn't the title REntal? (awesomesauce overall despite it being a bit unclear on what to do or interact with)

"Rental" is a short, badly made 3D rendered low poly "horror-lite" game about a bunch of furries that move into a house, leaving one of the children alone, with a premise that apparently if you rent a house, there's no way of knowing where that house is. Which, uh, makes no sense at all. Thankfully this is short, and the best thing about something that's bad is when there's less of it. And you can have even less of this one by not downloading it.

This features fairly low quality low poly 3D visuals which will deter a lot of gamers, understandably. Gaming is a visual medium, and it's clear the developers behind this didn't understand that.

This is only free in a rudimentary sense... the developer has their hand out for a $3 "donation" for this as you're expected to buy some extra DLC from Steam... digital panhandling. Like the homeless guys who splash dirty water on your windscreen at the traffic lights. No thanks.

Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it?

Nope. This isn't worth downloading. While this didn't cost me any money up front, I still feel ripped off.